Faculty COVID-19 Expertise
The following faculty members are available to speak to the media about their expertise and to assist organizations with issues related to their expertise.
NOTE: Media wishing to speak with any of our experts should contact Shelly Kiser, Communications Manager for the KSU College of Humanities and Social Sciences, at 470-578-6980 or skiser4@kennesaw.edu.
Faculty Name: Sherrill Hayes, Ph.D.
Title: Professor of Conflict Management, Director of Ph.D. In Analytics and Data Science
Email: shayes32@kennesaw.edu
Area of expertise: Managing and resolving conflict in families and during housing disputes; “distance” conflict mediation; mediating rent crises and custody and visitation schedules while sheltering in place; currently studying stress and burnout related to working from home during the COVID-19 restrictions
More Information:
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281893146_The_Digital_Natives_are_RestlessEngaging_High_Conflict_Parents_Through_Technology
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326008901_The_Greensboro_Landlord_Tenant_Dispute_Program_Developing_and_Sustaining_a_Responsive_Dispute_Resolution_Program
- https://kennesaw.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvGyFUUZ1wE7ue1
Faculty Name: David Cassilo, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor of Communications
Email: dcassilo@kennesaw.edu
Area of expertise: How sports leagues, teams, players and the media communicate health issues; social isolation caused by health concerns;
More information:
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2167479518790039?casa_token=ryl7lgI6RFUAAAAA:UD_DMFIK3D1omgFaYleFCifazh525oZmxFWN2cnCPGtsGzpw6FuGzkODw_k1aKOsK94LFIxD6JxR
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2167479516654513
- https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=jade
Faculty Name: Amanda Reinke, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor of Conflict Management
Email: areinke@kennesaw.edu
Area of expertise: Disaster and conflict management; bureaucratic responses to disasters; currently studying Ohio and Georgia’s state-level response to COVID-19; serves as a Red Cross Disaster Action Team responder
More information:
- https://works.bepress.com/amandareinke/
- A spreadsheet of available resources in the Cobb County area created and provided by Amanda Reinke (not endorsed or created by KSU): https://drive.google.com/file/d/15RzmfS5mn0F398Mrl0qe4d7C34dBGQt9/view?usp=sharing
Faculty Name: Volker Franke, Ph.D.
Title: Professor of Conflict Management
Email: vfranke@kennesaw.edu
Area of expertise: Conducted a survey of Americans on trust of government and neighbors during the COVID-19 crisis
Faculty Name: Sara Doan, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor of Technical Communication
Email: sdoan4@kennesaw.edu
Area of expertise: Health communication around COVID-19 and other health issues, particularly how charts and graphics can be misleading and how to create charts and graphs that accurately represent health information; currently researching how certain COVID-19 charts visually misrepresented data
Faculty Name: May Hongmei Gao, Ph.D.
Title: Professor of Communication and Asian Studies
Email: mgao@kennesaw.edu
Area of expertise: Communication strategies, response and policies related to COVID-19 in China
More information:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2G7WNlkAAAAJ&hl=en
Faculty Name: Barbara S Gainey, Ph.D.
Title: Director, School of Communication & Media
Email: bgainey@kennesaw.edu
Area of expertise: Crisis communication and crisis management with specific focus on crises in educational institutions, crisis leadership and crisis resilience in individuals and communities
Faculty Name: Evelina W. Sterling, PhD, MPH, MCHES
Title: CHSS Interim Assistant Dean for Research, Director of Research Development & Strategic Initiatives, and Assistant Professor of Sociology
Email: esterlin@kennesaw.edu
Area of expertise: Public health, epidemiology and epidemics
Faculty Name: Dianhan Zheng, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor of Psychology
Email: dzheng4@kennesaw.edu
Area of expertise: Organizational support of employees during crisis and how support impacts performance and well-being
Faculty Name: Ulrike Ingram
Title: Lecturer and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Lab Manager
Email: uingram@kennesaw.edu
Area of expertise: Volunteering in collaboration with other faculty and student to research and enter public COVID-19 testing sites in Georgia into an online GIS map
Faculty Name: Dorian Lee Jackson
Title: Assistant Professor of Spanish
Email: djack264@kennesaw.edu
Area of expertise: Fluent in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Can provide expertise to interested parties wishing to communicate with non-English speaking communities.
Faculty Name: Marcus Marktanner
Title: Professor of Economics and International Conflict Management
Email: mmarktan@kennesaw.edu
Area of expertise: Data analysis, economic impact assessment, and public policy (including crisis response policies)
